George Carlin said it, and it’s true. Rights don’t exist. We’ve gotten to the level where things that used to seem protected are now violated, and pointing to the laws that say they are rights doesn’t do anything. Once checks and balances disappeared, the ones in control could do whatever they want, especially when everyone else is still trying to use the rules that aren’t being acknowledged or enforced to “fight” back.
a lot of the countries that signed up to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Adoption
have made it almost impossible to take those rights away
pretty good huh? lets continue enforcing these rights, right?
almost impossible my ass.
Might makes right in this world.
it’s made it slightly annoying to take those rights away, which to be fair is a damn sight better than it being trivial.
Yup its almost word for word of his bit
I read it thinking,“Does this guy really think he’s the only one who watched Carlin and is now trying to pass it off as his own idea?”
Once checks and balances disappeared
“Checks and balances” were always a lie. Those so-called checks and balances may have played a real role in maintaining the status quo class hierarchical structures (helping ensure class cohesion among the bourgeoisie), but they never served as a genuine check on the power of those who have it in their rule over those who don’t. The ones in control could always do whatever they wanted, but liberal theatrics like “checks and balances” helped with the facade that protections for the people were in place where they never actually were. The only difference now is the mask is slipping. As the rates of profits fall, the imperial core is beginning to cannibalize itself so there’s less and less need or incentive to maintain that increasingly obvious false facade. The vast majority of regular people, the working class, only ever had one “check and balance” to use against the ruling class and that is noncompliance backed by a willingness for violence, more specifically the threat of revolution.
A call for human rights that can’t be taken away by the first idiot is not anarchism, it’s the most basic common sense and logic upon which a good society should be built.
This is quite literally all of human history. The state rules based on one simple truth, they are the sole arbiters of violence. Might makes right kinda thing. When few rule over many, humans in power will always want more. And them taking away your freedom is their last bastion when they already have everything.
humans in power will always want more
That’s the kind of bullshit “human nature” argument that liberals use to justify bourgeois “democracy.” No, not every person who has power develops some inevitable insatiable thirst for more. Power structures will always exist, certainly within socialist movements but even within anarchist movements. Just because we live within a capitalist structure that rewards greed and sociopathy while punishing empathy doesn’t mean we can’t build power structures that truly benefit the whole of society.
They don’t have a “good” president, only “less evil”.
They don’t mind if the “less” turns right every day, and it’s so bad they’ll accept someone who’ll bomb and invade some other country again if they could go back to how things were, which is getting away with abhorent shit abroad and claiming to be the ‘greatest country’ ever.
Anyone who wants to be made president should on no account be allowed to do the job
what about Vermin Supreme? He’s a tyrant that we can trust, and we should let him run our lives.
He’ll give every single citizen a free pony!Running my life sucks and wouldn’t wish it on anyone else. Even for a pony.
This take isn’t even controversial, it’s just true. Same with the privileges temporarily given by the supreme court, same when they called people “essential workers” when they meant “expendable human capital”.
the controversial part is the OP calling this anarchist. anarchists advocate for rights that arise from mutual respect and social cooperation.
